DAP Farewell - Song Composed by Denise Grant and her small group at TTC Miami 2010

DAP FAREWELL
(song composed by Denise Grant and small group at TTC Miami June 2010)
(To the tune of Jamaican melody)

So you say you wanna be
You wanna do the DAP
And you all came to Miami
To learn it all at TTC.

Chorus:
You learn teaching, assessing and families
Curriculum and caring communities
The Zone of Proximal Development
Scaffolding and play and all that’s meant

Now I hope that you’ll agree
That these 5 days at TTC
Gave you the skills that you will need
To ably perform the DAP.

Chorus
You learn teaching, assessing and families
Curriculum and caring communities
The Zone of Proximal Development
Scaffolding and play and all that’s meant

A stretch but not an impossible leap
Be intentional about what you teach
A 4-year-old really can compose
Children can reach challenging and achievable goals

TTC: Skillful Teaching for EC Educators - literacy posters, day 3

These are the posters created by the participants on Day 3, June 22, 2010.  The theme is literacy.

TTC: Skillful Teaching for Early Childhood Educators, June 2010

25 international educators attended an informative and fun intensive course whose focus was Early Childhood.  Watch for posts by the participants.

I forgot to add the Read to Your Bunny program to my Bibliography listing, so here it is

Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Resources for Librarians.

http://www.tsl.tx.us/Id/pubs/readbunny

I have occasionally had problems getting into the site. So I have had to "google" read to your bunny to access the site.

Read to Your Bunny Bibliography

National Institute for Literacy http://www.nifl.gov A great resource for information on literacy for educators and parents

Reading is Fundamental http://www.rif.org

A non-profit organization that supports reading. The Leading to Reading site within the RIF site has great games, exercises, and activities that support pre-reading at home.

International Children's Digital Library http://www.childrenslibrary.org.

A free site that offers digital books for children in a variety of languages

Tumble Books Library http://www.tumblebooks.com

A paid subscription site that offers over 200 digital books includes picture books and elementary fiction.

Scholastic BookFlix http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/bookflix

A paid subscription site that presents a picture book accompanied by a non-fiction book about an aspect of the picture book

Storytelling & Yoga Workshop

Presented by Lisa Mangelsdorf & Joan O’Donnell

BOOK/RESOURCE	AUTHOR	ISBN #	website
Yoga Pretzels (box with bendable figure)		1 905236 04 2	www.barefootbooks. com
Sleepy Little Yoga:  A Toddler’s Sleepy Book of Yoga	Whitford, Rebecca	0 8050 8193 3
Yoga For Fun	Studelska, Jana V	978 0 7565 3282 6
Storytime Yoga	Solis, Sydney	09777063 0 3	www.storytimeyoga. com
Yoga Bear Yoga for Youngsters	Pierce, Karen	52944 15467
Babar’s Yoga for Elephants	De Brunhoff, Laurent	9 780810 910218
Peace Tales:  World Folktales to Talk About	MacDonald, Margaret	0 208 02328 3
Pulling The Lion’s Tail	Kurtz, Jane	0 689 80324 9

ISKL's First Workshop for Early Childhood Educators

We are pleased to announce the first International School of Kuala Lumpur Workshop for Early Childhood Educators, February 5-6, 2010 at ISKL's Melawati campus.

  

At present, we have approximately 70 educators attending the workshop. Participants are coming not only from ISKL but also Mutiara Grammar School, Garden International School, The Kiwanis Down Syndrome Foundation, Tenby International School (Ipoh), ELC International School, and The Kuala Lumpur Alice Smith School.

This is our designated space on the web for sharing resources, insights and best practices as we reflect on our teaching of young children.  All the presenters are invited to post here, and all the participants are invited to comment.